Cuban gunboats fired for more than four hours Saturday on a Cuban freighter loaded with Florida-bound refugees who reportedly hijacked the vessel. Seven people were injured, one critically. Four of the wounded, including the ship's captain, were taken by Coast Guard helicopters to Key West Memorial Hospital. Three people who were hurt scrambling for cover during the shooting were treated on the ship, Coast Guard officials said.

They met in church, fell in love and married. And for 11 months they enjoyed a happy conjugal life. But now, says Ana Margarita Martinez, every time that she and her husband made love, she was raped. Not by her husband, Juan Pablo Roque. By Cuba.

Charging that the two small civilian planes shot down by a Cuban MIG-29 over the Florida Straits were in international airspace, Secretary of State Warren Christopher on Sunday accused the Cuban government of blatantly violating international law and warned that the United States is considering a range of retaliatory actions.

The alleged leader of a Cuban spy ring was charged with conspiring to commit murder, the first criminal count filed in the deadly 1996 downing of four pilots by a Cuban warplane. An indictment unsealed in Miami alleges Gerardo Hernandez conspired with the Cuban military to provoke a violent confrontation with Brothers to the Rescue, an exile group that searches for Cuban refugees at sea. A Cuban fighter attacked two of the Brothers' planes over international waters in 1996.

The alleged leader of a Cuban spy ring was charged with conspiring to commit murder, the first criminal count filed in the deadly 1996 downing of four pilots by a Cuban warplane. An indictment unsealed in Miami alleges Gerardo Hernandez conspired with the Cuban military to provoke a violent confrontation with Brothers to the Rescue, an exile group that searches for Cuban refugees at sea. A Cuban fighter attacked two of the Brothers' planes over international waters in 1996.

Cuba is studying the possibility of closing its airspace to all U.S. planes because of continued American pressure over the two civilian planes shot down by Cuban jet fighters on Feb. 24, a Foreign Relations Ministry spokeswoman said Thursday. Other measures also are being studied, Marianela Ferriol said during her weekly news conference, but she declined to specify what they are. Prohibiting U.S.

The dream of wresting control of Cuba from Fidel Castro has animated a long line of Cuban American exiles in Miami, starting with members of the brigade that met its destruction at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. In today's Miami, few are more audacious than those who call themselves Brothers to the Rescue.

President Clinton severed all remaining commercial air links with Cuba on Monday and outlined additional sanctions to punish Fidel Castro's government for shooting down two unarmed civilian aircraft, but he stopped far short of a naval blockade or other military action. In a brief statement to reporters at the White House, Clinton scoffed at Cuba's explanation that the planes, operated by an anti-Castro Cuban emigre group, were destroyed because they had violated Cuban airspace.

They met in church, fell in love and married. And for 11 months they enjoyed a happy conjugal life. But now, says Ana Margarita Martinez, every time that she and her husband made love, she was raped. Not by her husband, Juan Pablo Roque. By Cuba.

Cuba is studying the possibility of closing its airspace to all U.S. planes because of continued American pressure over the two civilian planes shot down by Cuban jet fighters on Feb. 24, a Foreign Relations Ministry spokeswoman said Thursday. Other measures also are being studied, Marianela Ferriol said during her weekly news conference, but she declined to specify what they are. Prohibiting U.S.

President Clinton severed all remaining commercial air links with Cuba on Monday and outlined additional sanctions to punish Fidel Castro's government for shooting down two unarmed civilian aircraft, but he stopped far short of a naval blockade or other military action. In a brief statement to reporters at the White House, Clinton scoffed at Cuba's explanation that the planes, operated by an anti-Castro Cuban emigre group, were destroyed because they had violated Cuban airspace.

The dream of wresting control of Cuba from Fidel Castro has animated a long line of Cuban American exiles in Miami, starting with members of the brigade that met its destruction at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. In today's Miami, few are more audacious than those who call themselves Brothers to the Rescue.

Charging that the two small civilian planes shot down by a Cuban MIG-29 over the Florida Straits were in international airspace, Secretary of State Warren Christopher on Sunday accused the Cuban government of blatantly violating international law and warned that the United States is considering a range of retaliatory actions.

Cuban gunboats fired for more than four hours Saturday on a Cuban freighter loaded with Florida-bound refugees who reportedly hijacked the vessel. Seven people were injured, one critically. Four of the wounded, including the ship's captain, were taken by Coast Guard helicopters to Key West Memorial Hospital. Three people who were hurt scrambling for cover during the shooting were treated on the ship, Coast Guard officials said.